Signed up for residential and he now does commercial. He took our suggestion for a website with both residential and commercial listings. Starting doing commercial real estate. Made $75,000 in the first year and has been making connections every since and doing deals. Sold a retirement home that was on MLS from the person he met through ICIWorld. Likes the exclusive opportunities that are not on MLS and likes the opportunity working exclusive listings industry-wide.

Scott Anderson, Broker, Re/Max Real Estate Centre, Brokerage placed a medical building on ICIWorld last year. It generated leads. He developed a business relationship with one of the buyers and during the following year sold five medical buildings to him for approximately $10,000,000. All started with one simple “Have” message on ICIWorld. Scott not only deals in medical buildings but also self storage and industrial buildings, and more.

Al Dharsee, Sales Representative, Right At Home Realty Inc. sold a 26 unit apartment building for $2,350,000. He placed it on ICIWorld and received about 10 calls in the first week from ICIWorld and 6 calls from his real estate board. One call was from a principal show saw it on ICIWorld and bought it. He says he has tried many other services but this is the best. See Al’s web site and how ICIWorld links work to provide opportunities for Al to serve the public.
He also sold another a 16 suite apartment listed on the service by another member. Good work. Well done.

Maryjane White, Sales Representative, Royal LePage Triland Brokerage, London, Ontario sold a mobile home park $1.3M and gets leads on and has sold many homes parks as her specialty.

Kuldip Bassi, Broker Of Record, Tri-City Professional Realty Inc., Brokerage has done several deals. The latest one was for a Want to lease space for trucks. Another member at TREB (Toronto Real Estate Board) saw the Want on ICIWorld and called him. They did a four year lease to help their clients. Another job well done by real estate professionals.

A Century 21 Broker listed an office building exclusively for $1,650,000. Within 2-3 weeks of placing it on ICIWorld he received about 20 calls. He ended up selling it to a principal who had seen it on ICIWorld. Total commission was approximately $45,000. Some of these other buyers he is now working with.

He has had about six deals resulting from connections both directly and indirectly as a result of ICIWorld. He has sold a restaurant business, a triplex, he has leased half an office building over 6,500 sq. ft., for example and several more.

He says it is the easiest and most efficient method for both brokers and potential clients to find suitable investments for their clients. It certainly complements what is on his real estate board and fits together working side by side with his real estate board.

David Grossman, MBA, Mortgage Agent, Independent Mortgage Advisors Inc. reports closing a $3M loan on a gas station within one month joining ICIWorld.

Teja Nijjar, Sales Representative, HomeLife Suprstars Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage had listing in Niagara Falls that he placed on ICIWorld. Another member had a buyer and they worked together and sold it.

Commercial Division reports that he had resort with a golf course for sale on ICIWorld. He had it on for a month or so and had about six calls, one from a realtor in Ontario who had a buyer for a golf course. They worked a referral, and Ian sold the golf course portion and paid a referral fee to the broker on the sale of a $1,250,000 golf course. This also was great service to the public the buyer and the seller.
Ian has received many highly qualified buyers for specific types of property such as golf courses, and other recreational property, hotels, motels, and resorts.
MARKET REPORT 4/28/03: Ian reports the commercial market is very active and he has written over $5,000,000 this year already. One reason he is so active, is because Westjet is flying directly to Comox from Calgary and Edmonton, in only 1 hr. and 15 minutes. It is making a radical difference in the valley.